Our missional priorities:1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans.2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.

Emerging Church: the Originals 6/7

"Not cancer, climate change, not whether the Apple watch is the best or worst idea ever perpetrated on humankind... But the problem of how to get people to change their mind." Acts 16 and the malleable hearts in Philippi. Read Acts 16, and consider listening to this story on "This American Life."

And...here's a rare postscript to a sermon already preached and recorded: the contemporary sociological "research" that anchors this sermon turns out to be seriously flawed -- as in, the researcher faked the data. Just wow. Here's the Washington Post article that exposes the lie. Ouch.